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A new study estimates that the opioid epidemic has cost the U.S. economy about $631 billion because of health care costs and the unrealized lifetime earnings of people who died from overdoses.

The lawsuits say schools have had to hire more staff, install special sensors and provide programs to help students cope with nicotine addiction.

As investigators learn more about what happened to a Ukrainian International Airlines flight which crashed in Tehran, a growing body of online evidence suggests it was shot out of the sky.

The order is a blow for the White House, which essentially tried to give state and local government officials power to veto resettlement. The judge says that appears to violate the Refugee Act.

NPR's Scott Simon shares the story of two Liberty University students who met on a bus and, while making small talk, discovered they had met many years ago and many miles away.

Cellphone users from the U.S. border with Canada south to the border with Mexico should receive a mobile alert from the early warning system when an earthquake is detected.

The college football coach always got a rush from this adrenaline-producing 1982 hit, no matter how many times he heard it during his 23-year career at DePauw University.

Luis Gallego, the CEO of International Airlines Group, wants "common testing standards and the introduction of digital health passes."

A Connecticut man bought the small porcelain bowl for $35, then asked Sotheby's experts to appraise it. They valued the Ming dynasty piece at up to $500,000, but it sold for far more on Wednesday.

A simple piece that composer Malek Jandali wrote in 2011 became inextricable from the early protests in Syria. For a decade now, that connection has informed and invigorated his life and work.